Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Auden as Philosopher: How Poets Think
Wilderness and Agriculture
Once upon a Time in the West: Heidegger and the Poets
Lyric Realism: Nature Poetry, Silence, and Ontology
The Ethics of the Negative Review
Defenders of the Faith
I Know What I Like ! And Nobody's Going to Tell Me Different
It's a Free Country, Isn't It ?
What about Bad Books?
The Art of the Review
Integrity and Ornament
The Novels of Pascal: A Review of Correction by Thomas Bernhard

Being Will Be Here, Beauty Will Be Here, But This Beauty That Visits Us Now Will Be Gone
A Note on Jane Jacobs's Systems of Survival, or Why We Will Not Be Able to Prevent Global Ecological Collapse
On Rules and Moral Beauty
Lyric, Narrative, Memory
The Syntax of Ethical Style
Ethics and Narrative
Ontological Attention and Lyric Form
Frost and Snow
Haydn's F-Flat
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index